What stupid things have you believed/said/assumed before finding out to your embarrassment you were wrong?

[CookieRookie]

Could do with a laugh today

Here's mine...

1 - I thought a filet mignon was something presented on fire, you know with brandy or something...a flamin yon

2 - I thought rollmops where called roll 'em ups because they're rolled up but I was kind of right with that one.

Not hilarious, though dh did laugh at me til he was nearly sick, but I'm hoping some of you have much better, more embarrassing ones.

[Playingwithbuses]

Arkansas pron Arkensaw Just found that out right now, I thought it was two different places.

[MotherPanda]

Untill I was about 16, I thought lingerie as pronounced as its spelt.

Lin-ger-ree.

Got educated when shopping with a girlfriend... i blush even thinking about it now!

[pinkgirlythoughts]

oops, turns out it's me that's been reading those biology diagrams wrong all these years then! The fact I managed to get an A-level in it is a little , though! (Although I did get a D, which might explain it! )

[CookieRookie]

Me too MP

[TaudrieTattoo]

The thought of a kestrel manoeuvring (Sp) in the dark has made me properly laugh out loud.


And now I realise I can't spell manoeivjeoing.

[5inthebed]

Playingwith buses, you've just leant me something new!

[5inthebed]

*learnt

[5inthebed]

Or is it taught?

[CookieRookie]

It's teached, you bag!

[mumatron]

Flamin yon that made me laugh so much.

My dp has loads of these. He thought it was labtop rather than laptop.

He didn't know that obviously had a 'b' in it. He only believed me when he checked a dictionary.

[StealthPolarBear]

I bring this one out on every thread like this
But I used to think tigers were female lions - not in a "properly thought about it" way, just in a "never corrected a misconception I had when I was tiny" way. DH still calls them "lady lions" and laughs at me

[cantpooinpeace]

I thought (until recently) that the shoes you get at bowling were steel toe capped!

[mumatron]

lady lions classic!

[mumatron]

lady lions classic!

[noonar]

ok, here are a few more:

me as an adult: that chickens have 4 legs (til quite recently).
as a child:
i thought that a tv show called 'reilly ace of spies' was called 'relay of spices'

my 35yo ( v clever) brother: thinks its 'championCHIP'not 'ship'.

my friend grew up thinking the 'happy eater' restaurant chain was called 'happy easter'

dd singing xmas carols... "we wish you a merry xmas and a happy new EAR"

and like most of the population, i used to think the expression 'got another THINK coming' was 'another THING coming'

also, had idea that 'calling a spade a spade' had racial overtones

[alemci]

When I was learning to drive, my driving instructor told me not to let the car free wheel i.e. I think not to disengage clutch.

I thought he meant '3' wheel' so in my head I had visions of the car being on 3 wheels with one in the air if that makes sense like herbie films.

I told my DH this is what I thought instructor meant and he was in hysterics and explained that it was the clutch thing.

also in a girls school and didn't really understand sexual intercourse at 11 and have visions of the sperm swimming across the bed sheets to go into the vagina. Also I said to my mother who was with a good gf at the time. 'Why don't people wear pants in bed then they wouldn't get pregnant'. They both went into hysterics.

[StealthPolarBear]

and that is the sort of 11yo I want my DS and DD to be - the sort I was infact. Not being given alcopops, as on that other thread

[ToriaPumpkinPasty]

Noonar when I was doing my PGDE I had a little boy in my class (must have been five or six) who was overheard singing "Gloria, hosannah headache Chelsea"

[Cathycomehome]

I thought AWOL stood for "absent, wandering or lost". Until quite recently. I am 34.

[RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles]

My very clever DD2 (she's just got a lot of A*s and As in her GCSEs) thought until a few months ago that there were traffic lights in the middle of the channel tunnel, thus allowing the cars driving (yes driving) through, to swap sides in preparation for the other side. This is even more ridiculous given that we have been through the tunnel over 100 times.

She also asked whether our cat, who had only hours before had her kittens, was a girl or a boy.

How the fuck she managed to get so many top grades will defeat us all for ever and a day.

Another one here who thought for years that Yosemite was pronounced Yoh-se-mite. . I didn't even equate Yosemite Sam with it, finally got it when I was about 25. Oh dear.

[LostInTransmogrification]

noonar I thought (think) it's 'another thing coming' too!

[nokissymum]

Thank goodness cornishmade ! ive been also calling it "yose might" two syllables all my life

I had a dear friend who discovered when we were 18yrs that ivanhoe is just that ans not "e van hoe hey"

[Marymaryalittlecontrary]

When I went to uni and lived in a hall of residence the cleaners kept our communal toilets stocked with those paper bags you get in hotel bathrooms etc to put used sanitary towels in. My then boyfriend came to visit and after using the bathroom asked, "what are those paper bags for? I think I know but I'm not sure." I asked him what he thought they were for and he replied "for putting poo in." Ewwwwww! I'm not quite sure how he thought that would work. And why would that be a better system than a flushable toilet?!!

[chimchar]

I thought that the lead singer with Duran Duran was simon the bomb. I was about 12 before I realised my horrible shameful mistake.

Friends dp thought that muslin squares were called Muslim cloths. We have had many an hour piss taking out of that.

I have numerous song lyric mistakes. One is the first line from the pulp song, 'common people'. She came from Greece she had a supermarket